Key Trinamul Congress meeting at CM Mamata’s Kalighat residence in Calcutta

• Key Trinamul Congress meeting begins at party supremo Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence in south Calcutta
• The meeting is being chaired by Banerjee and is also likely to be addressed the party’s all-India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee
• The meeting is being attended MPs, MLAs and district presidents of the party, including top zilla parishad functionaries
• Banerjee likely to communicate to her leaders the political roadmap to the upcoming Panchayat elections in Bengal under challenging circumstances where an embattled TMC is currently being seen as bearing the brunt of the recruitment corruption in the state and other scams which are being probed by central agencies
• The party is likely to re-introduce the system of observers and coordinators for districts, sources say
• Banerjee and her nephew also likely to pinpoint the party’s political counter strategies against the opposition who are putting the Trinamul in the dock on a regular basis using corruption as primary agenda
• The leaders also likely to discuss threadbare on ways and means to counter the adverse ground impact of the regular visits of Central teams to probe corruption allegations and the Centre tightening its purse strings for various social welfare schemes like MNREGS and PM Avas
• Sources say that the party supremo may offer a “vocal tonic” to the leaders to boost their morale in the run up to the panchayat and general elections

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